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to ask if you ever wonder about certain posters/threads?

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mxmxm · 26/02/2021 13:39

i’ve used MN for years, and i often think about particular threads or posters that stuck out to me or i interacted with ages ago that i haven’t been able to find (or just seemed to stop posting without a trace) since then.

anyone else get strangely nostalgic/curious thinking back to threads/posters and wonder what became of them?

OP posts:
GeordieGreigsButtButtZoom · 26/02/2021 23:26

@Thamigumathacharaid

One that sticks in my mind was an AMA. OP was the OW with an older man but he'd left his wife and had married the OW. They worked together and she was unable to advance in the company because of his position as a director or something. She seemed quite smug and kept going on about how amazing her life was but there always seemed to be an air of sadness. I hope she's well and that he stayed faithful.
Was this the one who insisted he would never stray and she would never lose her looks because she was half Italian?
flappityflippers1 · 26/02/2021 23:29

@mxmxm the OP had a DP who had this best friend that was basically the third person in their relationship. The friend had done horrible things on nights out, was horrible to OP, demanded to be her DDs godfather, the DP was spineless when it came to friend (who she named Tom) and this Tom was very in with the family. Then turned out DP and Tom were buying a house to do up but needed her income to pull it off - she wanted to go NC with Tom and then he turned up ready to move in.

Apparently she managed to sort out a job with housing, for her DD plus pets, packed them all in the car and spent the night at an air b&b...

I was so invested and really routing for her, but the thread was taken down as it was a known troll 😳

TimeIhadaNameChange · 26/02/2021 23:30

I hope Mini and her mum are doing ok.

There was a poster a few years ago who had married into a farming family and the in-laws thought they could control her life. I hope she and her family managed to get away.

A really random one, but an MNer about 10 years ago who had a greyhound called Jet. He'd broken his leg and she was worried about the expenses. He'll have gone to the Bridge by now but I do hope she's doing well.

HeronLanyon · 26/02/2021 23:33

A lot of threads where a woman is in real difficulty/vulnerable.

Where did that iron ever get to ?

Great update to tv thread which had been dormant for
Around a year ‘winning the wilderness’ which I stumbled upon this week. A lot happened there in this year since the programme.

SymphonyofShadows · 26/02/2021 23:35

Wasn’t the poster who slept on the windowsill the box room troll?

Medoc · 26/02/2021 23:39

No, I really don't think she was. Box room troll was a little later perhaps? I think the window sill sleeper was mostly genuine.

HandyBendySandy · 26/02/2021 23:40

Oh God yes, the missing ironing board one! Wonder where it got to...

GirlLovesWorld · 26/02/2021 23:41

Years ago a woman posted in Relationships: she was being horrible sexually assaulted by her husband. He would force his fingers into her any time he wanted. He called it 'oodling' I think.

I don't know how the thread ended, or if she got away. I hope so, I really hope so.

And yes to CupofTea and the teacups. If I remember rightly they had any other baby but ended up divorced. So sad, wee Bea was such a light in their lives.

ElizabethG81 · 26/02/2021 23:46

Does anyone remember the baby Daniel threads? It was someone pregnant with their first child who was going to be called Daniel. Daniel was the perfect child and was going to slot perfectly into his parents' lifestyle, which appeared to involve spending most of the time gaming. Daniel was not going to interrupt this at all. I think the thread initially started because the OP was upset that her partner was going ahead with a trip to Alton Towers while she was pregnant, which she didn't feel was fair as she wanted to go on all the rides too. I don't know why but I often think about how those first few months with Daniel went.

Ginger1982 · 26/02/2021 23:47

The one where the OP was leaving her abusive husband and another MNetter kindly took her dog in for her while she got herself sorted. I often wonder how she is and if she got her dog back.

OverweightPidgeon · 26/02/2021 23:48

There was a lovely thread where a bride to be found her dress was too small and through the power of mumsnet , someone offered to alter it for her.

BeeGeeTee · 26/02/2021 23:49

@ReadingIsFundamental

There was a happier one in which the OP was having a flirtation with a lovely rumpled man at work. She wasn’t sure if they were just friends or were edging their way towards something more. I just lurked on the thread but I think she started to get a bit freaked out by just his inverted people were and decided to stop updating. I’d live to know if they actually got together - I like to they had a happy ever after 😀

And the one where the OP lived in a protected building but the neighbours had torn windows out to make a door or something. Maybe they were trying to lay claim on her garden? They were going to get into trouble with the heritage people. I occasionally wonder how that got resolved.

I was the one with the flirtation with the lovely rumpled man! We did actually get together for a year, but parted amiably when I decided to leave the country. We’re still good friends — in fact, I was just talking to him on the phone earlier. He was and is lovely, but fundamentally too passive for me. And yes,I did get freaked out by how heavily invested some posters got in it all.
echt · 27/02/2021 00:04

This has made me think of a thread of several years ago where the poster's husband wouldn't let her into the garage, kept it all locked up so she didn't know what was in there.

Thinking of posters, FuckYouChrisandthatHorse hasn't been around lately. The name alone made me laugh.

InsaneLockdowner · 27/02/2021 00:05

I vaguely recall a thread many many years ago where a posters husband had a secret office in the garage shich ye kept locked all the time and would never allow yer access to it.
I can't recall why she posted exactly but everyone was saying that she needed to get in the office. We were all convinced he had something dodgy hidden in there but I lost the thread.

Funny ones I remember is the Penguin/Birdland date thread. It went in for ages but was bloody hilarious with several mumsnetters going undercover 🤣.
The tiny Korean lady thread.
Penguin bollards.
Lemon Drizzle Cake.

InsaneLockdowner · 27/02/2021 00:05

Echt...just cross posted about the same garage thread.

user0987654 · 27/02/2021 00:06

The person who thought a neighbour was using their washing machine, the lost ironing board, the random picture - I wonder about all of these

user0987654 · 27/02/2021 00:09

Oh and the OP who's son was getting caught up in extremest stuff online and was being influenced with someone from the US, I think the police had come out and spoken to him but she was concerned that he might hurt her. Then I lost the thread but I just hope she's ok

ShaneTheThird · 27/02/2021 00:10

Does anyone remember the poster who got out the bath one evening and slipped. A couple days later her leg still hurt when she was walking about so she got it checked out to find she had broken her thigh bone.

user0987654 · 27/02/2021 00:11

And the OP that thought she had wind and then found out she was very very pregnant and suddenly (I'll stop now!)

echt · 27/02/2021 00:14

@InsaneLockdowner

Echt...just cross posted about the same garage thread.
Great minds....InsaneLockdowner Smile
gurglebelly · 27/02/2021 00:26

Redtoothbrush's thread on the day she escaped. I had been following from the start and was willing her on so much when she was waiting to go. I was super emotional and so pleased for her when it all went to plan and she got away from that bastard

Oldat40 · 27/02/2021 00:27

@SEE123 Oh my goodness. That was my old username and I honestly am touched (and surprised!) you remembered me.
My situation is now sadly worse with my ex taking me to court for further custody so I see my boys just EOW. He has turned my 13 yo against me so much I fear it may happen.
I battle on... x

Oldat40 · 27/02/2021 00:33

@SEE123 My pregnancy went really well thank you and I had a wonderful home birth. She's now 9 months and a very, very special little girl. I still live in fear that she will be taken away from me as were my boys, but I'm having help with these feelings and allowing myself to love her without so much fear x

DeeDimer · 27/02/2021 00:34

I first joined MN about 6 years ago during a lonely hospital stay.
A poster (something like Mama22?) started a thread that her DH had gone missing. His van and later his body were found at a beach in Wales not far from me. She stayed on the thread for a while and had major problems with her in-laws.
I'd love to know how she is now.

Apandemicyousay · 27/02/2021 00:39

There was a poster who discovered her husband was cheating whilst he was in ICU following an accident. She was pregnant (I think), and had taken his iPad there and used his fingerprint to unlock it, and discovered a whole world of messaging and dodgy apps. He recovered and I think they separated. I lost the thread but sometimes wonder what happened, if she’s ok and the absolute horror of it.